The Basket
Senior Master Sergeant
- 3,712
- Jun 27, 2007
Did the pilot have any flying experience? He seemed to fly very well with no training.
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I've done similar stuff just for grins in a B737-800 on Flight Sim X. When my friend Kathleen was waiting for her class date at American, we set up a computer with multiple monitors to display all the panels and downloaded the patches to configure it like AA's planes. She had her study materials which included AA's checklists, flight profiles, and crew coordination protocols. (Which were not at all like Microsoft's). I got plenty of "flight time" as a PNF "captain" while she practiced being a PF "FO".But he did manage to fly an aircraft off a runway and do so serious moves.
Can a flight sim teach him how to start the engines and flaps and landing gear and rotate speed? I would assume the Q400 uses fly by wire which makes life easy.
He was a mechanic or ground crew who had authority to run and taxi the aircraft, so he had some training on the aircraft and knew the ground ops procedures, etc.
O.K., the news was reporting that he was a mechanic and held an authorisation - obviously mis-reported down here.No he wasn't. He was a ground service wroker. He loaded bags, and drove the tow vehicle. He did not have authorization to ground run or taxi the aircraft.
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